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Baphomet · Oct 13th, 2006, 4:46 PM

About two days ago at work, one of my employees informed me his program would not load. Usually when this happens I'd see an error message or something. But not a single window appeared on the screen to inform me of error information. Just a single "Critical Stop" error beep sounded (defined by MB_ICONERROR in the Windows.h header file). Office computers were recently updated, so I thought perhaps the update had something to do with it. One room had not received the updates yet. I tried running the program there. It worked... Eventually I discovered that if I disabled Windows XP themes when compiling, the program ran fine. What gives? Has there been an update on Windows common controls (aka Windows XP themes)?

Oct 13th, 2006, 4:46 PM	#1
Baphomet Retired Programmer Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 45 Rep Power: 0	Common Control Update? About two days ago at work, one of my employees informed me his program would not load. Usually when this happens I'd see an error message or something. But not a single window appeared on the screen to inform me of error information. Just a single "Critical Stop" error beep sounded (defined by MB_ICONERROR in the Windows.h header file). Office computers were recently updated, so I thought perhaps the update had something to do with it. One room had not received the updates yet. I tried running the program there. It worked... Eventually I discovered that if I disabled Windows XP themes when compiling, the program ran fine. What gives? Has there been an update on Windows common controls (aka Windows XP themes)?